On Tue 28 Sep 2021 at 19:12:27 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:12:21 +0200 > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > >.. > > > > But this wasn't my point. My point was rather that it is going out > > on a thin limb to say a complex piece of software isn't "buggy". > > > It's a matter of degree. All software has bugs, even if you haven't > seen them yet.
Never a truer word. This is the "keep them on tenterhools" style of support. > But only some software can be fairly described as 'buggy'. I have no > hesitation at all in declaring most of libreoffice to fall into this > category, with Base still virtually unusable i.e. extremely buggy. Calc > isn't too bad. Volume of users, I suppose, but Base will never gain > many users in its present state. I have never used libreoffice. You have succeeded in persuading me never to install it. > Claws-Mail verges on 'buggy', with frequent crashes. Firefox on my > unstable has blown through buggy and burst out of the other side. I can > only name two commercial websites which do not crash its tabs within > about thirty seconds. And that's after reinstalling it and all its > dependencies. I haven't bothered reporting it because I'm obviously the > only person seeing this. I blame JavaScript, as I do with most web > infelicities. The one machine here with Claws-Mail has *never* seen a crash due to it (or anything else, for that matter). What am I doing wrong? Firefox? Works. Well. > But my unstable desktop, including hardware, is in its last weeks of > life, so I'm not putting too much effort into fixing things. A new > installation should fix a multitude of sins. New installation? Another sid? That should make a difference. -- Brian.
